The Lauri Love Files Part 2

To Lauri with Love…

I was really humbled, when I was asked to write the follow up to Lauri Love pt.1. It’s been a joy getting to know him and the people running his campaign. I say this with all sincerity. I’m a tad biased at this point, especially after reading the reams of legal documents in front of me. I want, you, the reader to make up your own mind. The only way for me to do that is try to put together a time line of events according to the indictments and the request for extradition. I will try and be as concise as I can. I will warn you its heavy reading. I just want to try and weed through the nonsense and stick with the facts, I could find. Basically everything in the three indictments; Southern District of New York, District of New Jersey, Eastern District of Virginia, and the extradition request. I want you to form your own opinion. Please bear with me I’m trying to do this is pieces so you are not as overwhelmed as I am.

All the allegations against Lauri Love took place between October 2012 and October 2013. I want to give a clearer time line then I have yet to see in Lauri’s case. I will start with allegations laid out in the three indictments. The Southern District of New York alleges Lauri used five different alias in IRC; ‘nsh’,’peace’,’shift’,’route’, and ‘Smedley Butler’. The US District Court of New Jersey only lists three of the alias’; ‘nsh’,’route’, ‘peace’. The US Eastern District court of Virginia lists four alias’; ‘nsh’, ‘route’, ‘peace’,’shift’. I’m fraught to even bring this up, since much of the indictments refer back to chat room antics, I feel like I need to.

As a reminder before this gets deep the alleged charges. In the Southern District of New York we have 2 counts, computer hacking and aggravated identity theft from The Federal Reserve. Before you freak out on me, this how New York does things, under seal, basically the applicable laws are a footnote, yes it’s the usual cast of characters. The US district court of New Jersey, again different, it says 2 counts as well except listed under Count 1 are actually; The Engineer R&D Center Army Corps. of Engineers in Vicksburg Mississippi, The PAIO at Aberdeen Proving Ground,Maryland, The Strategic Studies Institute, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, NETCOM Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, Army Contracting Command Redstone, Alabama, The Missile Defense Agency, The FedCenter in conjunction with the EPA-OECA, & NASA. The US District Court of Eastern District of Virginia, 9 counts, Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Institute of Health, The FDA, The Regional Computer Forensic Lab of the FBI, The Department of Energy, Deltek, Inc., Forte, Inc, and victims D.P., J.E, B.H., J.K residents of the Eastern District of Virginia.

If you feel like you suddenly been transported into a John Grishman novel… Wake up!!! There’s more!!!

Since not all the allegations are dated, some of the them actaully refer back to IRC Chat. If there wasn’t a date, I had to refer to the IRC dates. Something I have struggled with and I refuse to get into. It’s IRC. We all the know the bravado, the trolls, the idiot kids that can randomly stumble in, it’s IRC. For the true tech people out there, this all seems to stem from an Adobe Program Cold Fusion. I am not a tech person and really don’t know what vulnerabilities the system was too known to have had at the time this is alleged to have happened.

Now for the timeline which all took place between October 2012 through October 2013. From I can piece together from the indictments here’s the list :

Hopefully you can follow this and hopefully you are all still with me because this isn’t over yet. This is just information from the indictments. Now comes a really big gap in dates. All of the sudden we are in July 2013.

July 3 2013:

Eastern District Court of VA:

Deltek, INC. ( Government IT Contractor)

The 4 victims D.P, J.E., B.H., and J.K

July 10, 2013:

District Court of NJ:

NASA

July 24, 2013:

US Department of Energy

August 14,2013:

Forte Interactive (Government Contractor)

I will say there’s so much more if you read through indictments on you own. I’m just trying to bring some order to the chaos. Hopefully I did with just sticking to the dates and the alleged agency’s involved. Our government alleges that these attacks dumped hundreds of thousands documents, personnel files and credit card information. Inserting backdoor, the list is just never-ending. Which most of the “data dump” is too have take place in 7 days by one person on a couple of laptops. I used to be gamer, I’ve built my own machines for gaming, this just seems inhumanly possible, for one person to have done. Ok maybe the IBM Chess computer.

This person is Lauri Love. A 32-year-old man, with severe health issues, with Aspergers Syndrome and depression. This is just not a man with depression but According to Professor Michael Kopelman testimony in the extradition “..Mr. Love was on the verge of psychosis and was clinically depressed,” This is when he was examined in 2012. Professor Kopelman went on to say Mr. Love continues to describe features of depression and the hallucinations to kill himself. This sound like someone capable of doing this? This is just a couple of words from one of the doctors who testified. Even our prison Doctors are against this extradition, we have no one who can care for someone with AS. Lauri will be put in solitary on suicide watch with another prisoner guarding him from killing himself. He couldn’t handle going away to university, his father had to go retrieve him for fear of killing himself.

The assurances made by our Government as to his safety and the steps that would be taken to ensure he was cared for, won the day. The cost of having the trial in the U.K. seemed to outweighs Lauri’s fragility. The rule of speedy trail was in there but we all know the dockets are so full that never happens, with the current charges in 3 states, how can it.

Lauri will be the first person from the U.K. ever extradited under the 1990 law. 114 MP’s signed a petition to President Obama calling for the end to this extradition. Yet, it’s still been signed off on, by Amber Rudd MP. Lauri faces no charges in the U.K., in fact all evidence collected by the authorities has been returned except one laptop, they can’t break the encryption on.

I know the law is supposed to be fair and just. I cannot for the life of me find the justice in this.